Two noticeable points of interest in Slate Run have to do with nourishment.
The first, the Hotel Manor sits across the creek from the trail but is easily accessed across the modern bridge. Dining is available indoors as well as outdoors on the deck overlooking Pine Creek. Overnight accommodations are also available here.
There is a plaque honoring Jacob Tomb outside the Hotel Manor.
There is weak cell phone service here. Ask nicely and the Hotel Manor staff may let you connect to their hotel wi-fi.
The Black Forest Trail starts and finishes in the Tiadaghton State Forest behind Hotel Manor.
The bridge behind Hotel Manor. (Picture courtesy …show more content…
In 1791, he moved his family from Milton up the creek in ten canoes, and reached his point of destination in November of that year. Jacob Tomb was an active and enterprising man. He erected grist and saw mills in 1796.
Benjamin, son of Jacob and Jane Tomb, was born in the month of March, 1795, at the mouth of Slate run, and he is believed to have been the first non-native child born that far up Pine creek.
Photo of Slate Run, courtesy of David Ira Kagan, Pine Creek Villages, Arcadia Publishing
Another of Jacob’s sons, Philip Tomb (he used the Tome spelling) wrote an account of his life as a frontiersman. The book “Pioneer Life: Thirty Years a Hunter” is a delight to read for its entertaining stories of hunting in the Pine Creek area. (See page 91-92 for more about Philip Tome.)
Slate Run was a busy place during the lumbering era. The main line railroad existed on the right of way for the Rail-Trail, but there were other narrow gauge railroads coming into the village from the mountains to the north and west.
The mileages in this book are shown in two ways. The first mileage is always the segment mileage; the overall mileage from the Northern Terminus is the second mileage